“The Singing and the Silence: Birds in Contemporary Art” examines mankind’s relationship to birds and the natural world through the work of 12 major contemporary American artists. The artists featured in the exhibition are: David Beck, Rachel Berwick, Lorna Bieber, Barbara Bosworth, Joann Brennan, Petah Coyne, Walton Ford, Laurel Roth […]
First Museum Exhibition to Focus on the Innovative Cosmetics Entrepreneur and Art Collector New York, NY – Beginning October 31, 2014, the Jewish Museum will present Helena Rubinstein: Beauty Is Power, the first museum exhibition to explore the ideas, innovations, and enduring influence of the legendary cosmetics entrepreneur Helena Rubinstein […]
(NEW YORK, NY ) – Through spring 2015, the Guggenheim Museum presents Kandinsky Before Abstraction, 1901–1911 in the museum’s Kandinsky Gallery on Annex Level 3. The exhibition features an intimate presentation of sixteen early paintings and woodcuts by Vasily Kandinsky (b. 1866, Moscow; d. 1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France), highlighting pictorial themes […]
To celebrate the 75th anniversary of Madeline’s publication, the New-York Historical Society will honor the beloved schoolgirl and her creator Ludwig Bemelmans with an exhibition of more than 90 original artworks. Everyone’s favorite schoolgirl, Madeline’s feistiness has made for timeless reading for generations of children. In addition to drawings from […]
An important, elaborately carved Roman urn of the first-early second century A.D.—one of the finest porphyry vessels to have survived from classical antiquity—has been acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The acquisition was made possible in part thanks to a challenge grant from Metropolitan Museum Trustee Mary Jaharis. Thomas […]
The Morgan Library & Museum announced today that it has received a major gift from the Estate of Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997), including twenty-one sketchbooks by the renowned artist, two of his early drawings, and several original drawings by artists who were part of his circle. The works were given to […]